Tex Johnston and the day Boeing's test pilot barrel-rolled a jet airliner over Lake Washington
How test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled Boeing's only jet airliner prototype over Lake Washington in 1955 - and helped launch the jet age.
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Bob Hoover and the greatest stick-and-rudder flying the world has ever seen
Bob Hoover, called the greatest stick-and-rudder pilot ever by Jimmy Doolittle, redefined airmanship through six decades of flying.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito and the impossible quest to fly the Wooden Wonder again
The decades-long quest to return the de Havilland Mosquito to flight demanded lost woodworking skills, wartime materials, and extraordinary determination.
TaildraggerThe Fokker Trimotor and the golden age of bush flying
The Fokker Trimotor bridged barnstorming and commercial aviation, shaping bush flying and aircraft design after a fatal 1931 crash.
TowerWrong Way Corrigan and the greatest wink in aviation history
Douglas Corrigan flew a beat-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938, claiming he read his compass wrong.
TaildraggerBob Hoover, the pilot's pilot who stole a Focke-Wulf from the Nazis
Bob Hoover escaped a Nazi POW camp, stole a Focke-Wulf 190, and became the greatest demonstration pilot in aviation history.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl and the P thirty-eight pulled from beneath two hundred sixty-eight feet of Greenland ice
The story of Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet beneath Greenland's ice cap and restored to flying condition.
TaildraggerJerrie Mock becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world
On April 17, 1964, Jerrie Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world in a Cessna 180 named Spirit of Columbus.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber, the F one oh six that landed itself
The true story of an F-106 Delta Dart that recovered from a flat spin and landed itself in a Montana cornfield in 1970.
TaildraggerBob Hoover and the dead-stick energy management routine that defined airshow flying
Bob Hoover's dead-stick Shrike Commander routine defined airshow flying for 40 years and remains the gold standard for energy management.
TaildraggerThe Twelve-Year Resurrection of Dottie Mae, the P-47 Thunderbolt That Ditched on VE Day
The P-47 Thunderbolt Dottie Mae ditched in an Austrian lake on VE Day 1945, sat submerged for 60 years, and flew again in 2017 after a 12-year restoration.
TaildraggerHarriet Quimby's Channel Crossing on April sixteenth, nineteen twelve
On April 16, 1912, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel - a landmark flight overshadowed by the Titanic disaster.
TaildraggerDoc and FIFI side by side on the warbird ramp at Sun N Fun 2026
Doc and FIFI, the world's only two flying B-29 Superfortresses, appeared together at Sun N Fun 2026 for a historic formation flyby.
RampThe DC two and a half and the impossible ferry flight out of China
The legendary story of the DC-2½, a Douglas DC-3 flown out of wartime China in 1941 with a mismatched DC-2 wing bolted to its fuselage.
TaildraggerBurt Rutan and the Voyager non-stop around the world flight
In 1986, Burt Rutan's homebuilt Voyager completed the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in nine days.
TaildraggerThe Reno Air Races - pylon racing at four hundred miles per hour
The Reno Air Races pushed warbirds to 500+ mph at 50 feet off the desert floor for six decades of speed, engineering brilliance, and profound risk.
TaildraggerAmelia Earhart - separating the myth from the real pilot
Amelia Earhart was a skilled, courageous pilot whose real legacy is her flying, not her disappearance.
TaildraggerBob Hoover and the greatest airshow performances ever flown
Bob Hoover's extraordinary career spanned a WWII prison escape, test flying, and airshow performances that redefined precision aerobatics.
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